Tax/theories On Taxation

Famous quotes containing the words tax, theories and/or taxation:

    “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:13.

    “A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)